Developing a curriculum for entrepreneurship education: Prioritizing the content using topsis method

Abstract

The quest for entrepreneurship education and its status in India needs to be developed by 2020. The present study aims at student preferences affecting entrepreneurship education. The first aim is to explore the related literature and factors of entrepreneurship education which have an influence on entrepreneurial intentions, and the second aim is to prioritize the factors of entrepreneurial intentions. A questionnaire based on dimensions, viz. Personal attraction, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control/self-efficacy, entrepreneurial intention, locus of control, need for achievement, and instrumental readiness (Gerba 2012), was distributed among the budding entrepreneurs from national institutes located in northern central part of India, by using "convenience sampling" method. A sample size of the study was 52 with a response rate of 49.52%. Multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) approach (AHP and TOPSIS) is employed to find out the weight of the factors as criteria and to obtain a final ranking of the entrepreneurial intention elements with a special focus on professional education from postgraduate engineering and management students. Research finding suggests that development of entrepreneurship cell and the business incubator is required in the institutes for the budding entrepreneurs. Theoretical contribution of present study includes the development of theoretical framework of entrepreneurship education factors to identify their priorities that help the national institutes for incorporating the entrepreneurship curriculum successfully.